GX & Decarbonization Research

Shukla Parul, Jackson Simango Magoge, I. B. Chatterjee +2

Argues AI's own environmental footprint—energy, carbon, water, hardware and e-waste—is poorly integrated into AI regulation. Applying Brown Weiss's intergenerational equity framework, it develops an Intergenerational Green AI Accountability…

Ana Buchadas

Classifying 760 Portuguese renewable projects via multivariate cluster analysis, the authors identify 18 energy-land system types shaped mainly by geography and scale. Northern wind systems favor co-location and co-governance, while souther…

Ebenezer Olalekan Oluwalade, Blessing Temitayo Oluwalade, Paul Kehinde Olulope +2

A systematic review of renewable-energy microgrids for rural electrification in Nigeria, covering solar, wind, small hydro, biogas and battery storage. It maps resource endowment and policy opportunities against barriers such as fragmented …

Ana Buchadas

A nationwide Portuguese study classifying 760 renewable projects into 18 'energy-land system' types via cluster analysis. Wind in the North favors co-location and co-governance; solar in the South is defined by output and externality mitiga…

Gianluigi Farru, Stefano Milia, Fabiano Asunis +8

This critical review examines integrated configurations combining anaerobic digestion (AD) with hydrothermal carbonization (HTC), pyrolysis, and bioelectrochemical systems (BES) for recovering energy, nutrients, and carbon from sewage sludg…

Talbot M. Andrews, Richard Clark, Rebecca Perlman

Original US survey experiments test how information about climate vulnerability shifts preferences between adaptation and mitigation. Those with weak priors prioritize local adaptation over mitigation when informed of their vulnerability, w…

Savaş Tarkun, Şerife Akıncı Tok

This study examines how geopolitical fragmentation reshapes the green energy transition and critical metal markets, analyzing systemic reconfiguration across energy and metals. It suggests transition pathways are increasingly contingent on …

Md Umar Hashmi

As power systems decentralize and decarbonize, consumers shift from passive end-users to active participants integrating DERs and demand response. This paper examines consumer empowerment (CE) for small distribution-network consumers, propo…

Zhaoxi Yuan, Magdalena Rãdulescu, Muhammad Sajid +1

Using an augmented ARDL approach on China (1990–2020), the study examines how monetary policy and energy imports affect aggregate, consumption-based (COC) and production-based (COP) CO2 emissions. Real interest rates raise aggregate and COC…

V. V. Namitha, YM Shukla, Ram Gopal +7

A critical review of soil carbon sequestration from cover cropping, diversified rotations, residue retention, reduced tillage, organic amendments, biochar and agroforestry in mineral soils. It finds the most consistent evidence supports mai…

Ayesha Sajid, Saad Siddique Khan, Khadija Tariq Khan

A qualitative documentary analysis of Pakistan's UNFCCC submissions (NDC 2021, BTR 2024, NDC 3.0) examining its climate diplomacy through liberal institutionalism and climate-justice lenses. Pakistan gained visibility via G77+China coalitio…

Harjeet Singh, Vandana Sehgal, neha singh

This study evaluates India's climate policy across energy, transport, agriculture, forestry and industry using OECD (2019) evaluation criteria. It finds policies have been effective in promoting renewable energy, energy efficiency, clean fu…

JuHee Jeong, Alan Dixon Brown, 배정환

A Framework Method literature comparison of renewable transitions on Scotland's Orkney and Korea's Jeju Island across context, technical, policy and outcome dimensions. Orkney followed a decentralized, community-led path on a small grid, wh…

Wissem Zaaraoui, Matteo Gentilucci, Riheb Hadji +5

This paper examines the strategic value of lithium resources hosted in North African chotts and sebkhas, with evidence from Tunisia. It outlines future perspectives on AI-assisted direct extraction from geothermal groundwater and brines, po…

Pavao Mesarić, Lovorka Gotal Dmitrović, Boris Jalušić

This paper reviews the origins, history, and technological evolution of geothermal energy for direct heat use and power generation, alongside global trends and statistics. It focuses on Croatia's existing projects, geological data, and stra…

Chia-Ling Chen

This qualitative single-port study examines how the IMO GHG framework and EU FuelEU Maritime transmit strategic pressure to Taiwan's non-EU Port of Keelung. It develops the K-RTRI diagnostic index across five dimensions—regulatory exposure,…

Jens Zimmert, Theresa Groß, Jochen Linßen +1

A PRISMA-based systematic review of 179 energy system modelling studies from Scopus and Web of Science. It finds large variation across studies in which security aspects are assessed, which disruptions are modelled, and which methods are us…

Rowan Hargreaves, Ekaterina Rhodes, Tamara Antonia Krawchenko

Interviews with ten municipal economic development staff in BC and Alberta reveal how oil- and gas-producing communities envision low-carbon transitions. Barriers include limited staff, technical and fiscal capacity and the absence of a coh…

Maria Santos Velascco

Using panel data from 40 countries, this econometric study examines how carbon emission reduction policies affect national economic growth. Stronger policies significantly enhance growth, with green innovation and renewable energy developme…

Erika Balontayová, Vladimí­r Šimanský

The paper proposes a carbon sequestration calculation method grounded in the IPCC definition—actual CO2 removal by plants and its retention in soil—rather than conflating sequestration with carbon stocks or balance. Inputs include real biom…